The insertion of a full-length Bos taurus LINE element is responsible for a transcriptional deregulation of the Normande Agouti gene

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 346-355

  Girardot, Michael ^a,e   Guibert, Sylvain ^a,d   Laforet, Marie Pierre ^a   Gallard, Yves ^b   Larroque, Hélène ^c   Oulmouden, Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^b Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c Département de Génétique Animale   (France)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agouti; Bovine; Brindle; LINE

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ALPHA INTERMEDIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MEAT; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AGOUTI; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745748314     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2006.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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